Material on the effects of physical exercise for preserving brain health.
- Articles on lifestyle & Alzheimer’s:
People at Risk of Alzheimer’s May Improve Brain Function With Individualized Treatment - Lifestyle changes improved cognition in people at risk for Alzheimers, study shows
- Could Regimented, Prescribed & Individualized Lifestyle Changes Improve Cognition in People at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease?
- Research article on lifestyle & Alzheimer’s:
Individualized clinical management of patients at risk for Alzheimer’s dementia - Articles on lifestyle & FTD (Frontotemporal dementia):
Lifestyle changes may combat a dementia that strikes people in their 40s and 50s - Lifestyle Choices Could Slow Familial Frontotemporal Dementia
- Active lifestyle may slow inherited frontotemporal dementia
- Report on lifestyle & FTD:
Active lifestyles moderate clinical outcomes in autosomal dominant frontotemporal degeneration - Move Your Body, Bolster Your Brain
- A Single Workout Can Alter the Brain
How Exercise Affects Our Memory - Exercise activates memory neural networks in older adults
- 30 Minutes of Aerobic Exercise Supercharges Semantic Memory
- Research publication:
Semantic Memory Activation After Acute Exercise in Healthy Older Adults - How Exercise May Sharpen Memory
How Exercise May Help Keep Our Memory Sharp - How exercise may protect against Alzheimer’s
- Exercise-Linked Irisin May Protect Against Neurodegeneration
- ‘Exercise Hormone’ Could Slow Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
- Research publication:
Exercise-linked FNDC5/irisin rescues synaptic plasticity and memory defects in Alzheimer’s models - Weight Training Changes the Brain
How Weight Training Changes the Brain - Weight Training – Good for the Brain Too?
- Research shows surprising link between weightlifting and cognition
- Strong Rat. Smart Rat. Got That?
- Research publication:
Resistance-exercise training ameliorates LPS-induced cognitive impairment concurrent with molecular signaling changes in the rat dentate gyrus - The Right Kind of Exercise to Lower Dementia Risk
The Right Kind of Exercise May Boost Memory and Lower Dementia Risk - Improved fitness can mean living longer without dementia
- Being Physically Fit Reduces the Risk of Dementia
- Robust Workouts Guard Brains & Health at Any Age
- Research publication:
Temporal changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of dementia incidence and mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study - 25 Again? How Exercise May Fight Aging
- Lifelong Exercise Prevents “Inflammaging”
- LIFELONG EXERCISE PROTECTS AGAINST AGING
- Research publication:
Effects of aging and lifelong aerobic exercise on basal and exercise-induced inflammation - Activity sharpens even dementia-affected brains, report suggests
- Daily Movement — Even Household Chores — May Boost Brain Health In Elderly
- Study Links Moving More in Older Age to Sharper Memory
- Dementia care: The one activity you need to do in old age proven to protect the brain
- Research article:
Physical activity, common brain pathologies, and cognition in community-dwelling older adults - Meet the man living with Alzheimer’s who climbs the same mountain every day
- How Weight Training Changes the Brain
- Weight Training – Good for the Brain Too?
- Research publication:
Resistance-exercise training ameliorates LPS-induced cognitive impairment concurrent with molecular signaling changes in the rat dentate gyrus - Your lifestyle can lower your dementia risk, even if you have high genetic risk, study says
- Healthy lifestyle may offset genetic risk of dementia
- Is healthy lifestyle associated with lower risk of dementia regardless of genetic risk?
- Research publication:
Association of Lifestyle and Genetic Risk With Incidence of Dementia - It May Be Possible to Counter Some of the Genetic Risk of Alzheimer’s With These Lifestyle Changes
- Doing these five things could decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s by 60 percent, new study says
- The molecule that helps exercise protect the brain from Alzheimer’s
- Exercise produces irisin — irisin might prevent Alzheimer’s, researchers say
- ‘Exercise Hormone’ Could Slow Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease
- A hormone released during exercise might protect against Alzheimer’s
- To Burn Fat, You Could Exercise … or Shiver
- How Exercise May Help Keep Our Memory Sharp
- Irisin: The “Exercise Hormone” has Powerful Health Benefits
- Research article:
Exercise-linked FNDC5/irisin rescues synaptic plasticity and memory defects in Alzheimer’s models - Research review article:
The Role of Irisin in Alzheimer’s Disease - Dementia study links your risk with your fitness level
- Researchers show better cardiorespiratory fitness leads to longer life
- Confirmed: Higher Cardiorespiratory Fitness Predicts Lower Mortality
- New study says not exercising is pretty much the worst thing you can possibly do
- Research article:
Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Long-term Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Exercise Treadmill Testing - Get moving to get happier, study finds
- Even a Little Exercise Might Make Us Happier
- A Systematic Review of the Relationship Between Physical Activity and Happiness
- Middle-aged can reverse heart risk with exercise, study suggests
- How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System
- Meet the man living with Alzheimer’s who climbs the same mountain every day
- Aerobic exercise for Alzheimer’s disease: A randomized controlled pilot trial
- Running helps brain stave off effects of chronic stress: Exercise protects vital memory and learning functions
- Running exercise mitigates the negative consequences of chronic stress on dorsal hippocampal long-term potentiation in male mice.
- Can the inevitable age-related decrement in motor unit number and stability be out run?
- Exercise Makes Our Muscles Work Better With Age
- Research article (60-year-olds):
Motor unit number estimates in masters runners: use it or lose it? - Research article (80-year-olds):
Motor unit number and transmission stability in octogenarian world class athletes - How to build muscle as age tears it down
- Exercise Training and Nutritional Supplementation for Physical Frailty in Very Elderly People
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (the notorious RGB)
- The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too!
- Get fit with the Ruth Bader Ginsburg workout
- Colbert attempts Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s workout
- Sitting Too Much Can Change Your Brain & Impact Your Memory, A New Study Says
- Too Much Sitting May Shrink the Part of Your Brain Tied to Memory
- medial temporal lobe (MTL)
- Research article:
Sedentary behavior associated with reduced medial temporal lobe thickness in middle-aged and older adults - How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining
- A lifetime of regular exercise slows down aging, study finds
- Original studies:
Major features of immunesenescence, including reduced thymic output, are ameliorated by high levels of physical activity in adulthood - Properties of the vastus lateralis muscle in relation to age and physiological function in master cyclists aged 55–79 years
- Intensive Exercise May Delay Cognitive Decline by 10 Years
- Exercise May Slow Down Brain Aging By 10 Years: Study
- Taking The Stairs Can Slow Down Brain Aging: Study
- Exercise May Slow Brain Aging by 10 Years for Older People
- Exercise might slow rate of mental decline by 10 years for older people
- Study: Exercise may slow mental decline by 10 years
- Intensive Exercise May Delay Cognitive Decline by 10 Years
- Original research articles:
- Leisure-time physical activity associates with cognitive decline. The Northern Manhattan Study (Abstract)
- Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Cognitive Aging in the Northern Manhattan Study
- Differences between chronological and brain age are related to education and self-reported physical activity
- Effect of Physical Exercise on Cognitive Performance in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia: A Systematic Review
- Endurance training may have a protective effect on the heart [2017]
- Maryland Study Shows that Exercise Protects the Heart’s DNA Structure [2017]
- Published research:
Acute exercise activates p38 MAPK and increases the expression of telomere-protective genes in cardiac muscle. [2017] - People who exercise at middle age might have bigger brains later on
- Exercise at middle age may keep brain bigger later in life
- Better Fitness In Middle Age May Stop This Organ From Shrinking
- Published research:
Midlife exercise blood pressure, heart rate, and fitness relate to brain volume 2 decades later - Fitter legs linked to a ‘fitter’ brain
- Brawn and Brains
- Fitter legs linked to a ‘fitter’ brain [Kings College article]
- Original article:
Kicking Back Cognitive Aging: Leg Power Predicts Cognitive Aging after Ten Years in Older Female Twins - Does Exercise Slow the Aging Process?
- Movement-Based Behaviors and Leukocyte Telomere Length among US Adults. Quantifying the relation between exercise and a measure of aging
- Physical Activity May Help Treat Dementia
- Staying Active May Help Prevent Dementia
- Is exercise the best medicine? Studies show big benefit
- Walking May Cut Alzheimer’s Risk
- Exercise May Slow Alzheimer Brain Atrophy
- Exercise and Mental Health: Many Reasons to Move
- Walking a little can go a long way
- Exercise and Mental Health: Many Reasons to Move
- Study Finds Aerobic Exercise Improves Memory, Brain Function and Physical Fitness
- Keep your mind and body in top condition
- Study shows why exercise boosts brainpower
- Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious
- Walking for a Better Brain
- 5 things researchers learned about Alzheimer’s this year
- Brain: Why exercise boosts IQ
- How running ‘may preserve thinking skills’
- Inactivity and the Brain
- ‘Functional fitness’ keeps seniors moving
- How Exercise May Help Memory
- Work out what matters most
- Effect of Exercise on Cognitive Performance in Older Adults
- Effects of Cognitive, Motor, and Karate Training on Cognitive Functioning and Emotional Well-Being of Elderly People
- Effect of Cognitive and Aerobic Training Intervention on Older Adults with Mild or No Cognitive Impairment: A Derivative Study of the Nakajima Project
- On the Brain: Weightlifting for the mind
- Daily Physical Activity May Reduce Alzheimer’s Disease Risk at Any Age
- Exercise Helps Alzheimer’s Patients’ Brains
- Exercising in your 70s ‘may stop brain shrinkage’
- Does increased activity mean higher GPA?
- How Exercise Can Keep the Brain Fit
- This is your brain on exercise
- Active lifestyle boosts brain structure, slows Alzheimer’s
- X-Exercise may preserve brain better than games
- Exercise May Help Preserve Memory and Thinking Skills
- Strength training key in preventing Alzheimer’s
- Walking may slow brain decline
- Exercise and the Ever-Smarter Human Brain
- The effects of exercise training on elderly persons with cognitive impairment and dementia: A meta-analysis1
- This is your brain on exercise
- Signs of Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Are Seen in Gait
- How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain
- Avoiding dementia similar to heart disease ‘ lifestyle changes important ‘
- Walk Your Way to a Longer Life, Study Says
- Physical inactivity causes 1 in 10 deaths worldwide, study says
- Strength training key in preventing Alzheimer’s
- How Exercise Benefits the Brain
- Study: ‘Exergames’ boost brain function among seniors
- 15-minute daily exercise is ‘bare minimum for health’
- Phys Ed: How Caffeine Can Galvanize Your Workout
- Phys Ed: Exercise as a Memory Booster
- Walking: Get a brain boost later in life by walking now
- Weights plus walking equals more fit in less time
- Phys Ed: Your Brain on Exercise
- How Exercise Works at the Cellular Level
